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The Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, is a model system for studying animal-bacterial symbiosis. Credit: Tom Kleindinst
Squid and Octopus Genome Studies Reveal How Cephalopods’ Unique Traits Evolved
Welcome to the 2022 Grass Fellows
Pa Shun Hawkins and Indu Sharma in Lillie at Microscope
MBL Announces 2022 Whitman Center Fellows and Early Career Investigators
Print of kelp forest by Brooke Weigel
On Giant Seaweed, an Intimately Packed Microbiome
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Nematostella

The numbers of Nematostella in the wild have been dramatically decreasing over time.

Karen Echeverri, Associate Scientist, MBL’s Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering
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Mimic octopus in the MBL Marine Resources Center. Credit Jennifer Tsang
The Trigger That Makes an Octopus Mom Self-Destruct | The New York Times
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MBL Researchers, Course Participants Elected to National Academy of Sciences
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The Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, is a model system for studying animal-bacterial symbiosis. Credit: Tom Kleindinst
Squid and Octopus Genome Studies Reveal How Cephalopods’ Unique Traits Evolved
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a microscopy image of two distinctly shaped diatoms (one long, thin and blue and one more oval) imaged during AQLM 2022 at the MBL
Amazing Images from the Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course
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NSF GRFP recipient Sarah Messenger in Alaska during her time as a Research Assistant at the MBL. Credit: Sarah Messenger
Former MBL Undergrads Awarded NSF Fellowships
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MBL Wraps Up Successful High School Program Season
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"Desert Landscape on a Salt Crystal," by Loretta Roberson, Michael Shribak, and Navahni (grade 11) was one of the MBL submissions to the UChicago "Science as Art" competition.
MBL Research Featured in UChicago “Science as Art” Contest
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Libbie Henrietta Hyman Made Impact in Science | The Messenger
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Mimic octopus in the MBL Marine Resources Center. Credit Jennifer Tsang
The Trigger That Makes an Octopus Mom Self-Destruct | The New York Times
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Octopus bimaculoides. Credit Tom Kleindinst
'Mind-Boggling' Scrambled Genome Found in Octopus and Squid. It Could Explain their Smarts | Live Science
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Longfin Squid (Loligo pealei). Credit: Tom Kleindinst
Squid and Octopus Genome Studies Reveal How Their Elaborate Nervous Systems Evolved | Cosmos Magazine
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Bacterial biofilm from a human tongue
Unseen Crisis: Threatened Gut Microbiome Also Offers Hope | Mongabay
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